The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. Susan Sontag incongruousjuxtapositionquotation Change image and share on social
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. Susan Sontag governguiltinexorable Change image and share on social
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. Susan Sontag detailfixflash Change image and share on social
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. Susan Sontag daydependprecisely Change image and share on social
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. Susan Sontag alienauthoritariandisease Change image and share on social
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. Susan Sontag defenseelementarylie Change image and share on social
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. Susan Sontag attentionenvyfeel Change image and share on social
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. Susan Sontag forminescapablyremain Change image and share on social
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. Susan Sontag capitalismconnoisseurexpansion Change image and share on social
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. Susan Sontag affrontconsolationcontrol share on social
